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Example sentences for: deflect

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Again, administration officials deflect it by contrasting it with a tougher word: "force."
(The NYT observes that Clinton's "hasty presentation . . . suggested the idea had been cobbled together quickly"--perhaps to deflect attention from Starr's new releases.)
Outside the garden walls, a large rectangular pond is bisected by the Nine Turnings Bridge, so shaped to deflect evil spirits.
The couple deflect the question of whether they are gay but do claim a friendship with Michael Jackson.
In 1976, Attorney General Edward Levi adopted domestic security guidelines to regulate intelligence collection in the United States and to deflect calls for even stronger regulation.